Having a really annoying issue on my Moto 360 where it switches to ambient display mode while I'm in the middle of scrolling through lists / notifications / interacting with an app

Having a really annoying issue on my Moto 360 where it switches to ambient display mode while I'm in the middle of scrolling through lists / notifications / interacting with an app. Surely there should be some kind of timeout that gets reset whenever I touch the screen?